Glycometabolomics is a crucial field within metabolomics that aims to understand how glycans are metabolized by analyzing the makeup, arrangement, and measurement of glycans in biological samples. It can be utilized to identify biomarkers and investigate the role of glycan in different processes. CD BioGlyco is committed to providing clients with a best-in-class Glycoinformatics-assisted Glycomics Analysis Service, which includes Glycoproteomics Analysis, Glycogenomics Analysis, Glycolipidomics Analysis, and glycometabolomics analysis. Our glycoinformatics-assisted glycometabolomics analysis services encompass but are not limited to the following.
Glycan metabolite analysis is a central part of metabolomics analysis. We start by utilizing computational chemistry methods and software tools to make predictions about the structures of glycan metabolite. These tools are capable of inferring potential glycan structures based on molecular structure and chemical bonding characteristics. Following this, we conduct glycan structure analysis by using commonly employed techniques such as mass spectrometry (MS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and chromatography to identify the structures of different glycoconjugates present in the sample and compare them with the predicted structures.
Our specialists utilize glycoinformatics software to examine the roles and connections of specific enzymes within glycometabolism pathways. By constructing glycometabolic pathway models and analyzing them in conjunction with experimental data, we help clients reveal the structure and function of glycometabolic pathways and the mechanisms of their regulation under different biological conditions.
We assist our clients in identifying biomarkers related to specific biological processes and disease states through glycoinformatics. Initially, glycoinformatics tools are used for feature selection and differential analysis to identify glycometabolites that differ significantly between disease and control groups. Candidate biomarkers are then screened based on the results of the analysis of variance, which may be compounds that are significantly up-or down-regulated in the disease group. Biological analyses such as structure prediction, metabolic pathway analysis, and biological function annotation are performed on the candidate biomarkers, followed by validation experiments.
Technology: Liquid chromatography-MS (LC-MS), gas chromatography-MS (GC-MS), and NMR
Journal: Metabolites
IF: 5.581
Published: 2022
Results: This article focuses on the bioinformatics workflow for metabolomics analysis. The article emphasizes the significance of metabolomics as a developing field that focuses on the quantitative analysis of a wide range of metabolites. Its primary goal is to identify the specific metabolites associated with each biological phenotype and provide an analysis of the related mechanisms. Glycometabolomics, a crucial branch of metabolomics, aims to uncover the mechanisms of glycometabolism by examining the composition, structure, and measurement of glycans in biological samples. It can be utilized to search for biomarkers and investigate the role of glycan in various phenomena. Glycometabolomics has identified aberrant glycometabolism pathways in a variety of diseases. The authors recommend analyzing integrated metabolomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and other histological approaches. This integration of data from different histologies leads to a more comprehensive analysis.
Fig.1 The standard process for conducting metabolomics analysis. (Chen, et al., 2022)
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